Peru: Further information: Family attacked by mining company personnel

21 September 2016, Index number: AMR 46/4860/2016

Máxima Acuña and her family, subsistence farmers in northern Peru, have reported acts of harassment and physical attacks against them by security personnel from the Yanacocha mining company. They are in an ongoing legal dispute against the mining company over the ownership of a plot of land where the family lives.